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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/9/2016 11:28 PM, Andrew
Sutherland <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:asutherland@asutherland.org"><asutherland@asutherland.org></a> wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">On Fri, Dec 9, 2016, at 03:25 PM, Ben Bucksch wrote:
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<pre wrap="">So, our only long-term option is to rewrite. And this *is* the job for
an architect.
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I'm not sure an architect is really needed.
If everyone is on board with a re-write, then I think we can argue that
the Firefox OS email app backend developed by myself and others covers
the re-write architecture case. (tb-planning-participant-wise, :squib
was involved with the pre-conversations work, and we switched over to
:jcranmer's excellent JSMime lib for parsing.) It was informed by years
of working on Thunderbird and with knowledge of gecko internals. And
I've been planning to get back to that after a breather following the
Firefox OS shutdown.
If something more evolutionary is desired, then I'm not sure we're going
to find someone with more expertise and experience than :rkent. (Unless
:bienvenu decides to become a Thunderbird hacker again!)
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Sounds promising. Presumably you're talking about the Gaia/Email
app? Or something else? Are there any details available? Like for
the re-architecture plan itself - is it complete? And/or, how much
work has already been done and what is left to do?<br>
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Thanks Andrew<br>
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